New Delhi: Amid Twitter and WhatsApp pushing back against the government’s new rules for social media platforms, IT and Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said the rules only benefit the over 100 crore users of such platforms by giving them a means to address their grievances. “…These are basically theContinue Reading
By Felix Anthony Miao: The diocese of Miao on June 6 launched a campaign to mark the World Environment Day. At small event held at Christ the Light Minor Seminary, Bishop George Pallipparambil of Miao inaugurated the “Mitthi Sona Hai” (Earth is Gold) campaign to make people self-sufficient by encouragingContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Varanasi: Catholic religious of Varanasi have collaborated with people of other faiths to open a series of temporary health centers in northern Indian city and villages surrounding it to fight Covid 19 pandemic. The seventh center was inaugurated on June 3 in a classroom of St.Continue Reading
By Vivek Joseph Hyderabad: The Montfort Social Institute in Hyderabad on June 4 opened its “‘Free Covid Care Centre” to serve patients from slums in southern Indian city, who have no place to isolate at home. “Numerous Covid positive patients in the slums have not been able to isolate dueContinue Reading
Bengaluru : With close to 3,000 deaths reported in the Christian community since April 1, many of which are COVID-19-related, the five big cemeteries in Bengaluru have run out of space and have been closed for burials. Meanwhile the Karnataka government is yet to act on its promise of providingContinue Reading
Chandigarh: A woman’s extra-marital affair is not a ground to deny the custody of her child in a matrimonial dispute as it cannot be concluded that she will not be a good mother, the Punjab and Haryana High Court has held. The court also noted that in a patriarchal society,Continue Reading
Ranchi: The Catholic Church has started distributing food packets to poor Covid patients admitted in hospital after giving pre-packed lunch packets outside the two largest state-owned healthcare facilities in Ranchi for their attendants and relatives. “We had started distribution of lunch packets outside both the Rajendra Institute of Medical SciencesContinue Reading
Low pay, 24-hour shifts and severe shortages of staff and protective gear have left many doctors on the front lines of India’s brutal pandemic surge near breaking point and fearful for their lives. Coronavirus infections have killed at least 165,000 people in the vast South Asian nation – home toContinue Reading
New Delhi: A photograph of Congress President Sonia Gandhi has gone viral, which purportedly shows a bookshelf behind her with a book titled ‘How to convert India into a Christian Nation’. The image also shows a copy of the Holy Bible and a statue of Jesus Christ on the shelf.Continue Reading
New Delhi: Bal Swaraj, an online tracking portal of a national child rights body, shows details of nearly 10,000 children in India in immediate need of care and protection. They include children under 17 orphaned or abandoned during the Covid-19 pandemic since March 2020. The National Commission for Protection ofContinue Reading
